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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-09-22 02:45 pm
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( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

Date & Time: September 21st - September 30th, 11:59 PM
Location: The Hold, the Moon Base
Characters: Any/all.
Summary: The Transports are evacuating to the Moon Base. Those on the Moon Base try to settle in and figure out their next move. Setting info can be found here.
Warnings: Talk of nuclear warheads and reference to immense loss of life. Please contact the mods should any individual thread get graphically violent or anything else of the sort.
Note: Use date and location tags in your subject headlines! Such as "On the moon, 23rd onward" or "On the spaceship, 25th" or "down at the Hold, 29th."

The Hold is a flurry of activity, grim faced members of the Initiative group directing supplies and people with the subdued air of people facing their own doom, and wondering at how to process the knowledge. None of the Initiative appears unaware of what will happen; their eyes linger on the Transports, expressions pleading, hopeful, doubtful, or immeasurably sad in turn.

Every eight hours, the space ship is sent back up with a load of people and supplies. The pilots are worked until they can't; the AI stolen ages ago by the Initiative greets and corrals people and supplies at both ends, and in the middle step between.

The network continues to broadcast on narrow channels between the Moon Base and Exsilium, up until the time that all connections are lost, with the carrier located en route to Exsilium. The first airship will pass by without dropping anything, but it's too early to celebrate. At a six hour delay from behind, the second airship arrives, and with it, the dark promise of the Black Code's nuclear weaponry.

The six hour window allows for time for those left behind, either by choice or circumstance, to be pulled to the Moon Base with the successful activation of the Transport Pad. New characters will ultimately arrive with the remainder of those not yet on the Moon Base, all in time to witness the explosive contact of the nuclear warhead with the ground of Exsilium live on satellite.

But until then, there's only the hurry, the silence, and the potential for full out rioting should the Transports spread word to the Exiles inevitably left behind to face this fate.
soul_sister: (No.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
I have made mistakes... and I repent for those.

But that's not one of them. If I go to Hell for that, then Heaven didn't need me.
senseandcecilbility: (William)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
...What a stupid thing to say. Don't you know that Heaven always needs you?

[He sounds dismayed. But it is not like he did not expect this sort of reaction. He shakes his head and looks away. Thousands of years ago, he would have tortured her and cursed her life, day after day, until she finally realized how wrong she was. But he too has changed. And now all he can do is mourn her fate and irrationally hope she will change her mind.]
soul_sister: (Forward. Always forward.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
THEN WHY DOES-!

[She catches her temper, frustration more than anger fueling it.]

I could never help him... he could heal anyone with a touch but it made him so sick. He couldn't play with anyone, couldn't run. Some days he couldn't even get out of bed. Not then, not when he needed me most, not when he was stolen away either.

If I hadn't... If I hadn't, Chrono would be dead, my brother missing, and I'd be wandering around the country aimlessly, wishing I'd told them both everything I wanted to say!

[NOW she's angry, all the things she hasn't said to anyone, ever, pouring out in the wake of it.]

I know it's all about choice and free will, but what kind of a choice is that? I'd have no way of finding him, or fighting the demon that has him! If a holy life is just leaving people to deal with what they did, then this is what I've chosen.

If He closes the gates on me, I'll kick them down! I want an answer before I get thrown out.
senseandcecilbility: (Deus avertat)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kevin rises to his feet. Not angry, but honestly desperate. He wishes he could shake her.]

How will you ever know? How can you predict how your or their future would have been if you stayed on the right path? If you had not contracted with a demon? You trusted your entire life to Chrono, and you endangered your eternal soul. Sister, you know your scriptures. Hell tempts the innocent with what they want and need, exactly when they want and need it the most. That is how it wins!

[And if all this sounds pretty personal, it is because it is.]
soul_sister: (GO AHEAD AND TRY IT)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[She stands as well.]

How do you know either? Were you watching? Was anyone at all? How many good people are going to die here and they did nothing?

[She's not being fair, and even she knows it, but it's hard to stop once she starts.]

And he didn't tempt me with anything! He didn't even want to!
senseandcecilbility: (punishment)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I was not! But...

[Someone had to be. If an innocent girl was about to sell her soul to a demon to save her holy brother, someone had to be watching. Someone should have helped. Someone should have stopped her.

Stupid, stupid rules.

But it is not her fault. It can't be her fault. So he focus on Chrono instead, even if he too knows, deep inside, that this cannot be fair. Solomon, who had always put fairness first, would have scolded him terribly.
]

He didn't even want to, you say, and yet what did he do to save your soul? I could have destroyed him. I could send him back. I still can. And yet he never asked me to. And you two hold hands as if your soul was expendable.

[What sort of love is that?]
Edited 2013-09-26 12:57 (UTC)
soul_sister: (WARN ME FIRST)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It's because we're friends!

You see a demon and your mind just shuts off at everything else that could be there. There are days he's so sad it hurts... He has stupid, ridiculous habits and he's so fussy and frustrating I want to punch him in the face. There are times when he makes me laugh harder than anyone else...

And he's never, ever let me down.

It's a choice I made, and even knowing everything, even if the contract was broken today I'd do it again.

It's a small thing if I can save them!
senseandcecilbility: (Wait a mo)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is a very, very frustrated angel, and a terrified one as well. Solomon was surrounded by the most charming demons, and look at what happened to him. As for William...]

You do not...need to tell me how much you love him! I can see it quite well! But your soul is no small thing. It is God's blessing and thus invaluable! It is not something you should give away. The cost of a human soul is not a debt anyone can redeem! Not Chrono, not your brother, not even all angels in Heaven!

[And her soul is so special, can't she see?]
soul_sister: (Cornered)

1/2

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[The noise she makes at that is pure frustration, shaking a little.]

I'm not giving it away!
soul_sister: (I'm not alone.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Then almost like that, it's gone, letting go into a sigh and she sits back onto the prayer bench again, a little bonelessly.]

Then... it's all that much more important to do something valuable with it now.

...

After this, we'll be happy again, all three of us. After this, it wont matter.
senseandcecilbility: (That's not what you think)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[And now he has no idea of what is going on.

But something tells him it is bad. Really bad.
]

Rosette?
Edited 2013-09-26 15:02 (UTC)
soul_sister: (Maybe when I'm sober)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
... sorry... We're just not going to change each other's minds, I think.

[She rubs the back of her neck a bit sheepishly.]

I guess I was taking it out on you a bit.
senseandcecilbility: (All creatures great and small)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sits by her side, now more concerned than ever.]

I could say the same. My apologies.
soul_sister: (That's because I'm right)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a little at that, nudging him a bit playfully in the side.]

I'll let you make it up to me.
senseandcecilbility: (He made their tiny wings)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Huff, love is suffering.]

Ah, yes. Naturally.

[Do you mean before he gets nuked with Britain?]
soul_sister: (You may call me Queen)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-26 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a promise then.

I'll arrange the mission when we're on the moon.
senseandcecilbility: (Totally caught red-handed)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-26 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suddenly looking very guilty.]

I should...go now.
soul_sister: (.....................................)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-09-27 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
.... What's with that look?

Hey. Hey, you're not planning on anything stupid, right?
senseandcecilbility: (He made their tiny wings)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2013-09-27 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Kevin cautiously steps away.]

Stupid? My, my, sister. Angels are never stupid. Please, try to meditate a little upon the things we have discussed. Have a safe trip ~

[He runs out of the cathedral, like a true hero.]